Bucknell for-credit courses developed by BPALC faculty to support thoughtful and informed dialogue in the liberal arts tradition (dates indicate semesters in which they were first offered; most are now being repeated regularly).
Spring 2021, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Tradition and Change in Literature and Music
Fall 2020, Tolkien, Lewis, and Totalitarianism
Spring 2020, The Bible as Literature
Fall 2020, redesigned seminar, The Hidden God of Nature, on the ecopoetics of classic literature from Chaucer to Dostoevsky
Fall 2019, New First-Year Foundation Seminar on Classic Fantasy Literature and Technocracy
Spring 2018 and 2020, Integrated Perspectives Course, The Conservative Mind
Summer 2017, The Gettysburg Address in Context: Public Rhetoric and Literature of the Civil War
Spring 2017, Terror with a Human Face
Christopher Ellis, Putting Inequality in Context: Class, Public Opinion, and Representation in the United States (University of Michigan Press, 2017)
Peter Mark Jansson, author of over 100 publications on renewable energy, smart grid, and engineering education.
Joe Murray, see publications listed here.
Fr. Dn. Paul A.K. Siewers, See publications listed here.
Janice Traflet, See publications listed here.
Rivka Ulmer. See publications listed here.
Mark Bettner, See publications listed here.
William R. Gruver, see publications listed here.
Stephen D. Willits, See publications listed here.
Here are books based on BPALC programming and/or related faculty scholarship. For other BPAL faculty and emeriti faculty publications, please scroll up.
Reflecting on the 1960s at 50: A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse. (Based on the 2018-2019 BPALC series “The ’60s at ’50.”)
The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution, based on the 2017 BPALC Symposium on the centennial of the Bolshevik October Revolution.